Water Filtration Method

[bigmac]

Oops; sorry!
It's been a while since I've posted. I'll figure out why this was posted to Canada Corals.

Moderators - Would you be so kind as to move this to the "Reef" thread? Thanks

[CM125]

Have you considered not using RODI water at all. Its very fast from the tap, and waste water is completely up to you...

[bigmac]

When I first started my 100 gallon; I was using tap water exclusively. I had concerns with some algae blooms. I then started using RO water from one of the grocery stores; but lugging around the plastic bottles became extremely cumbersome. That is why I bought the RO/DI system eventually.

I did like the way my salt mixed with the RO/DI over the tap water. I used Reefers Best salt and it just seemed that there wasn't any residue with RO/DI and there was with tap water.

My thought is to go somewhere in between full RO/DI and tap water so that I can make water faster, with a pretty decent amount of filtration, and zero waste.

[Slyguy00]

Originally Posted by CM125

Have you considered not using RODI water at all. Its very fast from the tap, and waste water is completely up to you...

That would work great... If you don't want anything fancy in your tank.

[bigmac]

Good point; I forgot to include my potential stocking list. That will have a bearing on it for sure.

My preference is for a lot of movement in the tank; therefore I'm not going to be having any SPS (for some reason they just don't speak to me). The corals will be Elephant Ear, rose bubble tip, xenia, frogspawn, hammer, torch and green star polyps (GSP); etc. And to note, the GSP will only be allowed to grow on the side walls of the glass (to be kept in check with razor blades). I don't want that stuff anywhere on the rocks as I know it will slowly take over.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Slyguy00

That would work great... If you don't want anything fancy in your tank.

I find this to be a load of bull , no offense but my system is all tap water for years I have no problems keeping " fancy " things or what ever that's supposed to mean lol and im not cheap and comsider my taste very highend so I don't buy common stuff .....so maybe you can enlighten me as to why I wouldn't be able to keep fancy things using tap water exactly? Maybe I'll learn something new lol

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

Your method of filtration is fine but I wouldn't use DI resin as it will get depleted faster than having run in conjuction with a membrane.
I thought of doing a similar setup to my system running only filtration with no membrane as I like to keep some of the ions after filtering to go to my system...

[bigmac]

Originally Posted by eli@fijireefrock.com

Your method of filtration is fine but I wouldn't use DI resin as it will get depleted faster than having run in conjuction with a membrane.
I thought of doing a similar setup to my system running only filtration with no membrane as I like to keep some of the ions after filtering to go to my system...

That's something I hadn't thought of; thanks for that point of view. That would mean I could go with 3 sediment and 3 carbon (assuming I use 2 of the 3 stage systems; of which I already have one). You just saved me some money; which I'll use to buy some dry rock from you once I'm ready for it……wait a minute, I see what you did there! Very clever!

[mikellini]

I'd just do a sediment filter and two carbon filters, should be good enough for your needs depending on source water quality. The extra sediment filters will do nothing unless you stagger micron sizes from high to low (night let you go longer between changes), but that would still end up costing you more. Sediment filters are cheap tho, but still I'd just run a single 1 micron filter on the front end and change it when your output drops significantly.

As for carbon filters, two I probably overkill but if you have the stages for it anyway it's just insurance. You can run 0.5 micron carbon blocks if you want but you would probably have to change them before the carbon is exhausted.

[ronau]

You could always save your waste water and use it to water plants or if you're really handy, plumb it into a toilet.

I have 2 100 GPD Vertex Puratek Deluxe units and it supplies me with all I need. I almost bought a 200 GPD unit during J&L's boxing day sale but who needs 400 GPD.